Top 115 Platonic Quotes & Sayings

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A.—or America.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

There's going to be this realm of Platonic forms and then there's going to be this single mind, the 'nous', which grasps them.

She kissed her way into society. I don't like her. But don't misunderstand me: my dislike is purely platonic.

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

I don't have a general archetypal platonic shadow, 'acting' concept about it.

I have platonic relationships with my guy friends. There's some friends that I've kissed or whatever, but it was always just once.

I believe there's a platonic ideal for every book that is written, like there's the perfect version of the book somewhere in the ether, and my job is to find what that book is through my editing.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

I do believe men and women can share healthy, long-lasting platonic relationships.

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!

She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.

Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

There's something so great about platonic intimacy.

We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.

I went to the prom with a girlfriend of my sister's, a platonic date.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

I've arrived at the age where a platonic friendship can be sustained on the highest moral plane.

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?

There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

I don't think you should ever expect forever in anything, in either platonic friendships or sexual friendships.

I love it when someone starts a conversation - romantic, platonic, small talk - as long as it's related to food.

I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

Passion and platonic friendliness, often contrary siblings, frequently wear similar faces to hide the great distance between them.

I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

In science there is and will remain a Platonic element which could not be taken away without ruining it. Among the infinite diversity of singular phenomena science can only look for invariants.

The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.

... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal Platonic Horseshit that exists, evidently, only in the contemplation of those who worship such abstractions; and I continue to notice that Natural Law bears an uncanny resemblance to ideal Platonic Horseshit.

For the Platonic or Aristotelian philosophy, it is of no importance whether Plato or Aristotle ever lived. For the mystical practice of an Indian, Persian, Chinese, or Neo-Platonic mystic it is a matter of indifference whether Rama, Buddha, Laotse, or Porphyrius are myths or not. The mystic has no personal relation to them. It is not here a question of somebody telling me the truth which of myself I cannot find, but of my finding an access to the depths of the world in the depths of my soul.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

The Platonic world of ideas corresponds to Thinking and Sensation on the mystical level.

Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull

Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.

We do each have an intellect but there's a universal intellect which is the same for everybody, as it were. And this single intellect is grasping the platonic forms.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

Platonic friendship-the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.

Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.